Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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